By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock.

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more ...

This newly extracted ice preserved a record of our planet’s climate history, continuous information on atmospheric ...

Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth's atmosphere and climate have evolved. Scientists say it should ...

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million years.

Researchers have made a breakthrough in Antarctic exploration, the international team announced on Thursday. The scientists ...

In a remarkable scientific achievement, researchers from the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project have successfully drilled a ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a ...